[Johnson] FCC NPRM

[W4AWM at aol.com]

Hi Tony,

Just to set the record straight, I was licensed as a novice in 1953 and had 
to take a 6 hour one way bus trip to Atlanta to do it.  I went to Atlanta again 
in 1953 during Xmas vacation and passed my General.  My Advanced was taken in 
the Baltimore field office on the last day that testing was offered by the 
FCC. While I was there, they were sending 25WPM groups for some commercial test 
which I coipied for laughs.  I missed one group. I passed my 20WPM extra code 
test in Alexandria on the last week before they went to the 5WPM requirement. 
With over 50 years as an active ham and never even a pink ticket or nastygram 
from Riley (Knock Wood), I am no CBer. I may talk the talk but I don't walk 
the walk! Oh, And by the way, I built my novice transmitter from an article in 
CQ magazine plus a V II and an Apache. I even know which end of a soldering 
iron to hold and I don't have one of the "instant cools" you see in the 
infomercials.

73, 

 John,  W4AWM